Honestly, I never saw this. I saw this version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYK_Gqyf48Y

When I first began playing the game. But I didn't see a single video BEFORE I had already got the trial version of the game, as it was a friend who got me to play. And I started off as alliance and was alliance for over a year before going horde.

I do not feel as if Blizzard is remotely favored towards the horde. I saw this as a person who was alliance through and through until I wanted a new challenge of different quests and checked out a new race, which happened to be horde.

When I was alliance I heard "blizzard loves horde best ..." all the time. When I was horde, I heard "blizzard loves the alliance best..." all the time. Face it, we are all blizzard's favorite children, it's just like my mom says, "I love each of you kids best in different ways..."

I feel like there has been a lot of focus on horde this expac but back in wrath I felt there was a LOT of focus on the alliance story, since Arthas and Jaida were alliance and the game was focused so much on the fall of the land, much of which was alliance territory into undead monstrosities.. you know, we call them forsaken.

Most of the horde while leveling and even now has felt like it's falling apart from inside. Nobody within the horde, likes the forsaken, and lets face it Sylvanas has done lost her mind... their own city is guarded by Orcs, as a sign of HOW MUCH the war chief doesn't trust them. Orcs and trolls are at each others throats, our current war chief had dubious dealings with killing one of the horde's most beloved leaders {Rip Carine...}, and no matter what the quest text says for every new blood elf which levels up and gets welcomed into the horde, no true blood elf sits easy with the knowledge we're all good. We realize pretty easily we're considered the fair weather friends ... don't get me started on those money grubbing, jersey-boy-girl goblins who are only in it for the money.

From my perspective the alliance is presenting a fairly united front. Sure their is a bit of trouble with iron forge but for the most part things seem to be going rather well for the alliance.

And yet people STILL have the nerve to feel as if Blizzard is all about the horde. For most of my time in the horde, there has been so much infighting, and bad blood that it's always felt on the verge of a collapse within.

I think any time any one gets too caught up in looking around at what some other guy has .. they start feeling as if what they have is not enough. They don't see the downside to what the other guys have they only see the surface. Just because some lame rock-guy whose name I don't even know made some stupid speech about how he'd never play an alliance {which was like some guy saying I wont ever wear a pink shirt...as if that somehow makes him more macho? } doesn't mean that BLIZZARD feels that way.

Lemme guess, if horde get shafted in mists somehow, alliance is going to some how feel as if they are a) over compensating b) the horde had it coming c) this is how it should be. Getting close? Getting warmer?

Compelling stories need rise and fall. They need pluses and minuses. Players whom are horde don't want to always be in the win any more than alliance players want to always feel like they've lost. On a personal level if we face set backs as the horde, and manage to come together, and pull our rag tag misfits group who would rather kill each other than play nice back together... to overcome the odds -that- would feel like a story I'd like to experience.

Why can't alliance hold out hope the same can/will happen to them?

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